Quotes About Synthesis

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in huge libraries filled with books, in fantastic amounts of data stored on servers. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative.

Her playing which had been superb became merely correct. It was necessary to suggest a certain sloppiness, the playing of something that hadn't been written. Computer-made music-synthesized Blue Moon- presented same problem. Random elements introduced.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.

Perhaps the time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of the philosophers and biologicized - made part of the new synthesis.

Everyone thinks alchemy is dead, but alchemists live among us—they are called editors: adept in the art of transformation, they practice arcane methods of selection, deletion and synthesis to take what is base and produce gold.

Man is a creature inescapably, and often unhappily, divided; and the divisions within him recurrently impel the use of his imagination to make new syntheses. The creative consequences of his imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

Our efforts are to be directed towards narrowing the gap between the study of shastras and science.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

there was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.